Sr. AI Engineer (Platform Infrastructure) in London

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Description and Requirements

The Advanced AI Technology Center (AAITC)—Lenovo’s global AI Center of Excellence is driving our transformation into an AI-first organization.

We are assembling a world-class team of researchers, engineers, and innovators to position Lenovo and its customers at the forefront of the generational shift toward AI.

We are building the next wave of AI core technologies and platforms that leverage and evolve with the fast-moving AI ecosystem, including novel model and agentic orchestration & collaboration across mobile, edge, and cloud resources.

This space is evolving fast and so are we.

If you’re ready to shape AI at a truly global scale, with products that touch every corner of life and work, there’s no better time to join us. #LATC

Responsibilities

• AI Infrastructure Strategy and

Architecture: Define and drive the long-term infrastructure strategy for AI workloads.

Architect scalable, cost-efficient, and resilient compute, storage, and networking solutions that support the full AI lifecycle from experimentation through production.

• Technical Leadership and

Mentorship: Serve as a technical lead and mentor to infrastructure engineers, establishing engineering standards, conducting design reviews, and fostering a culture of operational excellence across the team.

• AI Model Deployment and
• Platform

Engineering: Design and own the platforms, frameworks, and processes for deploying, monitoring, and managing AI models at scale in production environments, including model serving, A/B testing infrastructure, and rollback mechanisms.

• Advanced Automation and CI/CD: Architect and maintain sophisticated automation pipelines for AI model training, evaluation, testing, and deployment.

Champion infrastructure-as-code practices and drive continuous improvement of CI/CD workflows.

• Cross-Functional

Collaboration: Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, product managers, and leadership to align infrastructure capabilities with research and business objectives.

Act as the primary infrastructure point of contact for cross-team initiatives.

• Performance

Engineering: Lead efforts to profile, benchmark, and optimize AI infrastructure and model serving for throughput, latency, GPU utilization, scalability, and cost efficiency at scale.

• Security, Compliance, and

Governance: Establish and enforce security best practices, access controls, and compliance frameworks across AI infrastructure.

Ensure adherence to relevant regulatory requirements and internal governance policies.

• Capacity Planning and
• Cost

Management: Own capacity forecasting, resource planning, and cost optimization for GPU clusters and associated infrastructure, balancing performance needs with budget constraints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, Dev Ops/SRE, or a related field, with at least 4 years focused on AI/ML infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring engineering teams on infrastructure projects.
• Deep expertise in computer systems, distributed systems, and cloud computing architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Python and at least one additional systems language (e. g., Go, C++, Rust, Java) as well as understanding of Design Patterns and Solution Architecture.
• Expert-level Linux system administration, including package management, user/group management, file system internals, shell scripting (e. g., Bash), networking, and system configuration (e. g., systemd, kernel tuning).
• Strong architectural thinking with the ability to balance trade-offs across performance, reliability, security, and cost.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams and present to senior leadership.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and drive clarity through technical leadership.
• Expertise with observability stacks (e. g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, Datadog) for infrastructure, open telemetry n-tier application stacks and model monitoring with open telemetry and open inference.
• Knowledge of observability stacks, open
• Bonus Points
• Experience with AI and machine learning frameworks at scale (e. g., Py Torch, Deep Speed, Megatron-LM, v LLM).
• Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Advanced experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes), including custom operators, Helm charts, and GPU scheduling plugins.
• Expertise with observability stacks (e. g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, Datadog) for infrastructure and model monitoring.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e. g., Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi).
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or ML tooling projects.
• Experience with large language model (LLM) training and inference infrastructure.

What we can offer you

• Hybrid working model (3:2)
• Positive work life balance
• Learning and development
• Lenovo and Motorola products discounts
• Cycle to work
• Mortgage advice and support

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.

• Additional Locations
• United Kingdom
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